rec.autos.simulators

My game of choice is GTR2002. I recently bought a Radeon 9700 Pro.Can
anyone tell me what kind of a performance gain I would make upgrading my
motherboard to go from a 266FSB to a 533FSB, and AGP 4X to AGP 8X. I am
current getting a 10,466  3dmark2001 SE score  on a AMD XP2200 (1.81) .
I have the opportunity to upgrade to a 533FSB and AGP 8X MB and going to
a P4 2.5 for about
$ 450 after trading in my current MB and processor. Good deal or not?

Can anyone point me to a good barebone systems supplier that would be a
better way to go ?

Final question. Is there a guide available for the best bios settings
for a Radeon 9700 pro
as far a video cache and system cache etc.

I went from an AMD XP2000+ to a P4 2.66 running at 3.0Ghz and quite
honestly, I wasn't impressed.  Only marginally better performance.  If you
want to spend some money, go with the newest AMD that is selling for under
300.00, and get the nforce2 chipset motherboard, use your current memory,
unless the new board uses DDR333, even then it is only 150 or less for
512MB.  I would think that would perform as well, if not better.

I have the Ti4600 card though, but I don't believe the difference between
AMD and Intel would be much different with an ATI card.

Glen Pittman

My 2600+ running with 333FSB and 8X AGP scores in the 14000 range, this
is a bit low as I probably should see closer to 15k, but I haven't
messed around with a single setting yet

I'd expect that P4-2.5 to run in the same range if on a decent MoBo

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

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Here are links to my Benchmark scores.

The first link is the AMD XP2000+ w/ Ti4600 running at 800x600 (not sure
why, I thought it was 1024x768)

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=3240229

This second link is the AMD XP2000+ w/ GF3 Ti500 running at 1024x768

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=3037626

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5410177

Maybe these scores will help you see a little of what the changes would be.

My FPS in Nascar2002 only went from 70-80's up to 90-100's at 1600x1200x32
with no FSAA enabled.   Everything on , with 4X FSAA and I am at 35-45fps
when approaching the S/F line at Indy with a full field.

Glen